memeorandum: Why Obama's Decision To Stop Deporting DREAM-Eligible Youth Is Good For The Economy (Travis Waldron/ThinkProgress)

12:40 PM ET, June 15, 2012

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Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press:

AP sources: Immunity offered to certain immigrants — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses …

Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:

Why Obama's Decision To Stop Deporting DREAM-Eligible Youth Is Good For The Economy — President Obama will announce a new immigration policy today that will allow some undocumented youths to avoid deportation and receive work permits to remain in the United States.

Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement and Shakesville

Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:

BREAKING: Obama To Stop Deporting DREAM-Eligible Youth, Protecting 1 Million Undocumented Students — President Obama will announce a new immigration policy this morning that will allow some undocumented students to avoid deportation and receive work authorization.

Discussion: Pirate's Cove, The National Memo, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice and Jammie Wearing Fools

Department of Homeland Security:

Secretary Napolitano Announces Deferred Action Process for Young People Who Are Low Enforcement Priorities — La Secretaria Napolitano Anuncia Proceso De Acción Diferida Para Jóvenes Que Sean De Baja Prioridad Para La Aplicación De La Ley

Discussion: CNN, Washington Wire, This Just In, Business Insider, The PJ Tatler and ImmigrationProf Blog

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Secret report: Catch and release for low-priority illegals proposed

Discussion: dhorowitz3's blog and Riehl World View

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

Skip the falsehoods, Mr. President, and give us a plan — I had high hopes for President Obama's speech on the economy. But instead of going to Ohio on Thursday with a compelling plan for the future, the president gave Americans a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Hit & Run, Pirate's Cove, Daily Kos, americanthinker.com, Crooks and Liars, The PJ Tatler, neo-neocon, Pundit & Pundette and Prairie Weather

Hunter Walker / Politicker:

President Obama's Speech Gets A Thumbs Down From Political Press Corps — President Obama on stage in Ohio. (Photo: Getty) — Prior to President Barack Obama's marathon 54 minute speech in Ohio today, the Obama campaign sent our several statements promising the speech would be a major address framing the campaign going forward.

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New York Times:

The Political Contrast — President Obama sometimes forgets that an important speech does not have to be endless. On Thursday, appearing before supporters at a Cleveland community college, he spent 53 minutes on the stark contrast between his goals and the failed Bush-era policies that Mitt Romney is trying to resurrect.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Daily Beast and The Caucus

New York Post:

Running on empty — Man, is Barack Obama running dry. — The president gave a speech about the economy yesterday to put his stumbling campaign on a strong new footing — and cribbed most of it from speeches he delivered last year. — OK, presidents repeat themselves; it's no crime.

Discussion: Pundit & Pundette

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

MSNBC Panel's Verdict On Obama Campaign Speech: It Stinks — President Barack Obama delivered a campaign speech on Thursday that was billed as an effort to refocus on the economy and to frame the debate against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney moving forward.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Hot Air, nation.foxnews.com, The PJ Tatler and The Lonely Conservative

The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Economy — Cleveland, OH

Discussion: Washington Post, The Heritage Foundation, Taylor Marsh and New York Times

Washington Post:
Full transcript of Obama's speech on the economy in Cleveland, Ohio

Discussion: The Enterprise Blog, protein wisdom, Nice Deb, The Daily Dish, New York Magazine, Sky Dancing, Los Angeles Times, The National Memo, xpostfactoid, Democracy in America, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Liberal Values, Shakesville, Gothamist, National Review and BuzzFeed

Ben Feller / Associated Press:

Obama to Celebrities: 'You're the Ultimate Arbiter of Which Direction This Country Goes' — NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama soaked in the support — and the campaign cash — of Manhattan's elite entertainers Thursday as his re-election team sought to fill its fundraising coffers.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, protein wisdom, Sister Toldjah, Weasel Zippers and Questions and Observations

John Lauinger / NY Daily News:
President Obama visits Sarah Jessica Parker's Manhattan brownstone for elaborate fund-raiser

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Althouse

Mark Knoller / Twitchy:
Obama bemoans ‘people hurting out there’ at Sarah Jessica Parker's $40,000-per-person fundraiser

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative

Ruschell Boone / NY1.com:

NY1 Exclusive: School Prohibits Fifth-Grader From Giving Speech On Same-Sex Marriage … Kameron Slade worked on his speech with his mother and his teacher after winning a class competition. He was slated to deliver it in a school-wide contest at PS 195. — That's no longer going to happen.

Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement, Gothamist and The Raw Story

Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Fifth-Grader Prohibited From Giving Speech Supporting Marriage Equality

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Gawker and Towleroad News #gay

CNN:

Michigan lawmakers barred from floor after ‘vagina,’ ‘vasectomy’ remarks — (CNN) - Two state representatives in Michigan were barred from speaking on the floor of the legislature in Lansing Thursday after colleagues deemed their language “failed to maintain the decorum” of the legislative body.

Discussion: Ricochet Conversations Feed

Detroit Free Press:
With video: Two female Michigan lawmakers silenced after vagina, abortion comments

Discussion: Wonkette, Gawker, Indecision Forever, Politico, Jezebel, The New Civil Rights Movement and SBM Blog

Ronald Bailey / Hit & Run:

Union of Concerned Scientists Admits It Was Wrong — Last week, my column, Union of Concerned Scientists Cooks the Books, Media Swallow It, dissected the artful way in which UCS analysts had used corporate giving data to imply that General Electric executives were climate change hypocrites …

Discussion: Moe Lane and Guardian

Politico:

Inside the Koch World convention — The Koch brothers' political operation has increasingly come to resemble its own political party — and later this month in San Diego, it will hold what amounts to its most ambitious convention to date. — Many of the dozens of rich conservative invitees …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and rightwingwatch.org

Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:

McCain: Adelson funding Romney Super PAC with ‘foreign money’ — Senator and Romney presidential campaign surrogate John McCain (R-AZ) said Thursday that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is indirectly injecting millions of dollar in Chinese “foreign money” into Mitt Romney's presidential election effort.

Discussion: ABCNEWS and Mondoweiss

Sally Goldenberg / New York Post:

It's a ‘trick’ question — They're not hookers — they just look as if they could be! — A dozen scantily clad women rallied outside City Hall yesterday, decrying a bill they say prevents beauties wearing skimpy clothes from getting a fair shot at hailing a yellow cab.

Discussion: protein wisdom, The PJ Tatler and Politicker

BuzzFeed:

MoveOn Comes Out Against Barron — Revolutionary Pan-Africanism is too far left even for the left. “The kind of thing we've come to expect from the most offensive tea partier.” — Barron, then the Freedom Party candidate for governor, in 2010. — (Getty Images / Pool)

Discussion: Kenyon Farrow

First Read / msnbc.com:

First Thoughts: Obama ‘creates the contrast’ in Cleveland — Obama's speech yesterday: creating the contrast... A speech he probably didn't want to give, but which probably silenced antsy Democrats and donors... Romney's rebuttal... Transitioning away from the Silly Season? …

Discussion: Politico

Mj Lee / Politico:

Gay judge appointed in Virginia — An openly gay prosecutor has been appointed in Virginia to take the bench as a district judge, despite the state General Assembly's rejection of his nomination last month. — Tracy Thorne-Begland, whose appointment by Richmond Circuit Court judges will begin July 1 …

Discussion: Richmond Times-Dispatch

Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:

Recent Cases Shed Light on China's Feared Interrogation System — BEIJING — Membership in the Chinese Communist Party has many advantages. Officials often enjoy government-issued cars, bottomless expense accounts and the earning potential from belonging to a club whose members control every lever …

Discussion: The Peking Duck and Brad DeLong

Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:

Could Pennsylvania Go Red? — When Mitt Romney's bus tour pulls into Pennsylvania on Saturday, it will be entering a state no Republican candidate has won since George H.W. Bush in 1988. John McCain lost the state to Barack Obama by more than 10 points in 2008, and with 1 million …

Discussion: CNN and ABCNEWS

Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:

Obama Campaign Checks IDs At The Door — Not at the polls. — (Getty Images / JEWEL SAMAD) — CLEVELAND — President Barack Obama's presidential campaign checked the identification of the supporters attending Obama's “framing” event at Cuyahoga Community College today.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative